Michigan prosecutor tells vigilante to stop chasing predators
State authorities are telling a metro Grand Rapids man who confronts suspected sexual predators to stop what he’s doing, saying “vigilante activity will not be tolerated.”
“I strongly urge the public to leave this work to career professionals,” a Wednesday statement from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel read in part.
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He said he doesn’t think the police like the competition. That is all it is for him, one big game! The prosecutor knows this, that is why he said he will not pursue any case that involves this vigilante.
Does this mean they want to leave vigilantism up to the Michigan professionals…probation department?
This guy will meet up with the wrong person at one of these meetings and things will go horribly wrong for him. He is playing with fire. Some of these guys will be pushed around but like a wild animal caught in a trap, some will do whatever it takes to get away.
Since this guy is not law enforcement, some armed citizen who maybe was caught in this guys trap, will do something to change both of their lives.
Seems he has a personal grudge or something
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2019/06/14/alaska-supreme-court-declares-law-requiring-all-sex-offenders-to-register-unconstitutional/%3foutputType=amp-type
What I did twenty years ago was wrong. I have paid my debt, been forgiven by my daughter, and continued down a road of good citizenship that I have been on for nearly 74 years. My act had no where close to the negative effect of a drug dealer who sold one pill to a child, yet in Florida I cannot vote and the repentant drug dealer can. Do our legislators ever question their acts for common sense application? Or do they make decisions that will appeal to uneducated voters who think ‘their man or woman’ is a real legislative hero? Registration not only destroys the lives of individuals, but destroys the lives of their families. Where’s the ‘hero’ in doing that?
Are you implying that a child being sexually abused is not nearly as bad as a drug dealer giving a child ONE pill? Although any drug given to a child is horribly wrong, immoral, and devastating…. it doesn’t compare to a lifelong nightmare and innocence being lost forever. That child will have to fight that memory for the rest of their living days on this earth. We are all taught in life to forgive, but they will never forget!
They are both bad. ONE pill can lead to addiction or overdose. Nobody is justifying either crime nor competing for what’s worse. Both are terrible.
Keri, my daughter and I made up several years ago. She moved from Michigan and now lives nears me in Florida. We get along just fine. Not all sex offenses are the same and do not all have life long effects as people in the ‘rehab’ business like to make out. To think as you do is part of the problem. By the way, the Bible does not say ‘Forgive and forget’, it says ‘Forgive and not remember’. Forgiveness is the greatest of healing ointments. Being satisfied as a permanent victim will eventually kill a person. I’ve had to do some forgiving and it is such a blessing…I found forgiving myself to be the toughest and I found receiving my daughter’s forgiveness to be the greatest gift.
Excellent information TXSO4LIFE
The problem is instead of trying so hard to figure out who is now no longer a threat , They need to set logical guidelines as to what is considered a threat in the first place as most on the registry were never a threat to anyone in the first place.
We have logical guidelines for assessing peoples’ threat levels TODAY. Our challenge is persuading legislators to use them.
What a mockery to the Judical system. The State’s Attorney is just grand standing on this.If they were serious they be nailing this guy for Impersonating a Law Enforcement for setting up strings. I kinda thought it was he grabbing the keys in the parking lot right there is another crime called assault.I don’t like to live in my past had he grabbed my keys like that he be taking his meals through a straw.I do not let anybody put there hangs on me. Even the correctional staff knew better since I been on close mangerment a few times for hitting everyone anyone.
I cant stop laughing because the dude going to run into the wrong person. and the crap he saying “he got a gun too” Gonna be funny someone takes it from him and he looking down the barrel of the gun
If I understood the article correctly this guy is posing as a young girl and arranging to meet these men for a sexual hook up. The article was not clear about him tracking people down from the registry. If he is impersonating a child on the Internet and arranging these meetings then he needs to back off and let law enforcement handle this issue. He is endangering himself and the people he is meeting. There are countless ways than one of those meetings could go sideways and somebody end up injured or dead. If he is tracking down people who are on the registry that is a crime in Florida but I don’t know what the laws are in Michigan.